This Module comes early in your course of study for a very good reason: most of the other parts of your work depend to some degree on how effective you are at your Health Education, Advocacy and Community Mobilisation activities. For example there is not much point knowing all there is to know about immunization if you haven’t been able to persuade the people in your community to attend to have their injections. As well as individual Health Education work, many things that will actually improve the health of your community depend on community and communal action — a single person would find it difficult to get clean water into their village, but the whole community working together may well be able to do that — and latrines as well. Of course even individual villages and communities might find it difficult to achieve certain health goals — like getting clean water — and this is where your Advocacy work will be so essential. Advocacy work will make sure that the people in authority, higher up the decision-making ladder, know of the health needs of your locality and will work together with you and others in your village to develop the infrastructure that will improve the health of your community. And it’s not just people further up the social structure who can help you in your Health Education activities. Advocacy work will help you identify other sources of help and support to combine with you to achieve health improvements in your locality. Perhaps there are non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or other agencies with resources that you could use — certainly working together with other agencies will increase the effectiveness of all your health- related activities.